Parental playfulness is about physical, cognitive and social behaviour marked by creativity, joy, imagination and humour when parents are fully present.
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The draft African Charter on Family, Sovereignty and Values contains serious inaccuracies and could have far-reaching consequences if adopted.
Debates over Bill C-223 should focus not on whether reform is needed but on how to protect children while preserving flexibility for complex, highly individualized cases.
Play has been pushed to the edges of children’s lives.
Play isn’t just for playgrounds.
Play should be promoted in cities to bolster children’s right to play anywhere.
Children are considered lucrative consumers of food. They need protection against misleading health labels.
Lack of co-ordination means that information important for the safety of children can be missed.
If it comes into force, President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship could have consequences for people and processes in the US and abroad.
It is not enough to merely send street children home to their families: everyone involved needs sustained support.
The Albanese government has announced a plan to ban kids under 16 from social media. There’s no explanation why this age was chosen, and the decision flies in the face of expert advice.
It’s neither practical nor helpful to keep children and teens off the internet in a hyper-connected, digital world.
Human Rights Watch has sounded the alarm over Australian children’s images found in a huge data set used to train AI models. It could be a breach of our privacy law.
In the wake of an infant death in Kingston, Ont., it is critical for this tragedy to inform changes to policy and to systems that uphold the right to safety and well-being for all Canadian children.
With the Paris Olympics and the 35th anniversary of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child approaching, now is the ideal time to focus on protecting the rights of child athletes.
A focus on sporting success can compromise children’s wellbeing and safety.
In the wake of transphobic protests, the ‘rights’ of parents are being falsely positioned in opposition to the rights of transgender and non-binary children rather than focusing on supporting families.
Insights from youth about COVID-19 school closures and youth exclusion from pandemic-related decisions suggest we have an opportunity to improve how we support youths’ rights.
Vlogging has emerged as a new source of intimate entertainment, and for creators, potential income. However, they also raise serious questions about exploitation and the privacy rights of children.
In six months, the state’s parliament has voted to override its own Human Rights Act, not once but twice.
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Law, University College Cork; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Professor of Teacher Education, University of Toronto
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Extraordinary Research Fellow: South African Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability, Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Jeffrey Bain Scholar & Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University
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Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon
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Associate professor, Faculty of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Professor of Social Work, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Human Rights Law, Queen's University Belfast